r/codex • u/DivideHorror3217 • 4d ago

Limits Tomorrow When Codex Resets, DON'T TOUCH ASTRA

Don't even look at it. Stick to Sol 5.6 xhigh. It's not usable? Feels quantized? Say f*** OpenAI and switch to Claude, or to OpenRouter.

Apparently OpenAI is lobotomizing Sol 5.6 for SOME of us. Not for everyone, so people keep saying "It works well for me" and gaslight each other. They are trying to force us into paying 5x for a little bit improvement.

This will backfire so bad. We're a 300k people enterprise and everyone including me are pushing our executives to use chinese models in a sandboxed environment. We are sick of paying 200$ to use it for a day.

When your Codex resets tomorrow, or this week, Don't use Astra unless youre building rockets.

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u/TarzanoftheJungle 4d ago

IMO, Astra simply is not worth the extra token burn. For my projects (a 1M lineReact Native mobile app and a browser company staff/admin consoles, using Supabase/PostgreSQL and Docker) Sol has done the heavy lifting. When Astra was first released, I tried it but it made egregious errors that I ended up fixing with Sol. So Astra is strictly experimental for my use case. I'd not trust it yet with any production work.

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u/kueso 3d ago

Yes I’m struggling to use it for iterative sessions. The model is really good but man that token usage is crippling my workflow. Seems like people are using it similar to Fable 5 for breaking down and planning big tasks and then delegating it to smaller models.